Tourism in Algeria between the reality and challenges

Abstract

Tourism in Algeria contributes only about 1 percent of Algeria’s GDP, this due to its sufferance from a deficit in terms of hotel facilities, food quality, qualification of the industry, a deficiency in the production and optimization of the tourism product. In both public and private sectors, the Algerian officials were slow to react to changes in tourism market. In contrast, Algeria has huge tourist potentialities and occupies a special place on the world tourist market. Algeria is a mosaic of culture, history and traditions, indeed many Mediterranean civilizations occupied this territory and left their tracks. Between these two sides of tourism in Algeria, can it change and increase its participation in GDP? What are the touristic opportunities that we have? What strategies the government should take to change this situation?